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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Say what you will. [b]It is common knowledge that the networking and job opportunities upon graduation from an Ivy are[u] unparallelled[/u].[/b]

I think it's easy for a lot of us whose own kids will not be Ivy candidates to sit here and say in our more self righteous tone that let him choose, it's his life, etc...but come on people getting into an Ivy is  big deal. I will be the first to tell you if it was my son, I would do everything in my power to at least encourage him to try it. If after the first year he is miserable then let him go where he wants to.

You see a phenomenal opportunity that COULD mean great things for your child, it is natural to want that for them. Nothing wrong with it whatsoever in my estimation.[/quote]

PP who has one kid at Stanford and another at Wash U.  I respectfully disagree with the bolded part. Also please keep in mind [b]that all Ivies are not the same.  But that's fine - we can agree to disagree[/b]. [/quote]

Agree (not op) however if we are taking Harvard Yale or Princeton I DO agree with that statement 100%. Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth not so much. My own D attended one of these and the opportunities afforded to her were simply astounding.[/quote]

I am sure....but please understand that my DD's opportunities from attending Stanford are pretty astounding also.  And given her major and interests, I dare say that she could not have gotten any better opportunites by attending HYP.  Also please note that I am talking about a kid who turned down an HYP because she figured out (correctly) that, given her major and interests, Stanford was the bettere choice.  No knock on the Ivies, but there are other top schools out there that provide great networks and opportunties - some just as good if not better than the Ivies. [/quote]

Ugh yes but we are talking Stanford, to many a school with more clout than some of the Ivies, so its hardly a step down or making a concessions...this is Stanford not some big state U.[/quote]

Right...but didn't OP say that her son's choice was a top school also - so I am thinking that she was not talking about Big State U[/quote]

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